Guess he thinks they will let him play basketball.

Let's go Chicago!!! Bring home the Gold!!!

Obamas should be worrying about real issues, not their damn egos and the Olympics. He needs to straighten out his priorities.

There 10000 others things for obama to worry about and he spends days off the country solving problems that wont help fix us the "AMERICANS" problems...I guess this is what we get having a presidents that so fanatic about sports..gosh..

Make it happen chicago 2016.this is war but we can win it!

This is nerve wrecking but in a great way.now i know how it feels when other cities like london, sochi, vancover, torino and athens were when they waited for their name to be called to host their olympics!

#5, yes so the millions it will bring into the economy does nothing for americans? the jobs it brings does nothing for americans? and he is not spending DAYS, just 1 day, he wont even spend the night there, so relax. because im a patriotic american i've got my fingers crossed hoping we win

Having just listened to the presentation, I sensed the yearning and the Obama's personal testimony but they did not leave an image of what Chicago would be like during the games. Are they going to widen the streets? Add new subways and rail-lines? What beach? That little strip of sand around Lake Michigan. And Michelle with her sob story about the south side. The south side has high gang, drug, and crime rates. All the IOC has to do is look at the recent videotape. And to house the athletes at the University of Wisconsin? 55 miles away? Oh, that would be a haul.
Chicago may have the diversity but it is an older city with terrible transportation problems. Obama talks about beautiful parks in the middle of the city. Where? Lake Shore Dr. is on the edge of the city. And the shooting question had to do with peace and quiet. No one addressed it. Chicago is not a peaceful and quiet city.
They presented a what we call "a fluff piece" and of course Obama brought up inaugeration night and tried to politicize his pitch. Just by watching you can tell member's of the IOC were puzzled. Too much was focused on the para olympic games. Well what about hard working non-disabled athletes who want to compete in a city they will enjoy without the headaches of a large midwestern city? The lake seem to be the only physical description anyone could give. Rio has the beaches, Madrid has the architecture, and Tokyo has state of the art everything and scenic views (water and mountains). Chicago's bid was baffling if not puzzling. The presenters should have shown the IOC all aspects of the city and failed to do that. Instead they acted like a bunch of dreamers and presented little.

having the olympics in the US would generate tons of revenue and jobs from now til 2016. Its an investment into the US future (the 1 day being out of the country)

I agree with JustMe - that money earmarked for the Olympics could be better spent. I live just outside of Chicago and EVERYONE I know does NOT want this here. No trying to sound un-American but I don't want my taxes inflated (look up Milenium Park and other Chicago over-budgeted projects) and all the construction hassle over the next 7 years! Heck, Da Mayor can't even get the streets plowed properly during our winters! Go Rio!

Chicago is MURDER CAPITAL these days...black on black killer teens...needs to focus on that instead...
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ihope they win but i suspect Rio will...also just heard the USA presentation was just "so so" ...

I think president should be dealing with things that will affect this economy now not in 2016, yes getting an olympic bid for the city of chicago could be huge, providing jobs, etc.... but that is for chicago what about the rest of us, i want to know what he is doing to help us now?? While the president was in Denmark presenting his Olympic bid, there was other business that should have handled first. Like the meeting in Geneva, to figure out what to do and how to handle the Iran nuclear plants... but i can see how the president thought olympics was WAY more importent.... My other question and people from chicago can help me out here. If Chicago gets the olympics and all the new buildings are built for them, then WHAT, what happens after that how will the city of Chicago use them. Rough estimate of population in chicago is what 2,000,000? and In Athens Greece home of the 2004 Games the population was 4,000,000 or so, and as of today they are not using hardly any of there buildings they built for the olympics. So for me as someone leaving outside the Chicago area, I dont think it would be well worth it to get the Olympics here, but then again in then 80's we had the olympics at Lake Placid NY, and our country wasnt doing so well at the time, and after that we kinda of slowly eeked our way out of the depressions. heres hoping our economy doesnt stay tanked until 2016, and we need an olympic bid to pull us out.

knucklebuster you think you know what your talking about but you dont

I am currently out of the office. You can complain to me about Obama leaving the country for 2 days when I get back from my month in Crawford, Texas.
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Geez.... Vond and Klay should go get a room after their sae-sex marriage in New Hampshire.

like i want to know if some clown can lift 5 times his weight over his head, i see that every day at work

Much of the information in these posts are completely inaccurate...the Athens metropolitan population is around 4 million, but Chicago's metropolitan population is over double that at well over 8 million (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_urban_areas).
Chicago does have huge parks in the middle of the city - Millenium Park and Grant park are both comparable to Central Park in NYC.
Chicago does have many very nice beaches spread throughout the city on the Lake. These beaches are awesome places to visit in the summer.
Chicago's public transportation system and infrastructure are some of the best in the country.
The gangster image is not reality in Chicago as the city has changed a lot in the last 25+ years. I have raised a family in the middle of the city for the last 5 years and have never felt threatened by crime.

C town is out...

How about cutting off all the foreign aid to the third world scum countries with IOC representatives that voted out Chicago and hosting a separate and better-run faux Olympics in 2016?

Declined- Last in votes first round is pathetic!

It's hard to believe that the birhplace of corruption would be out bribed by another city.

godot_3 ... you dont know how to read do you? maybe obama will give more money to help the likes of you read, i never once said anything how it is bad that he went to Denmark to speak to the IOC for two days.. my only problem was that it was at the same time as the meetings in Geneva where all the countries that were suppose to meet had someone represent them there except the US because ours was in Denmark. should he have went over there yes he should have went to denmark, if it was at a different time then the convention on Geneva, prioritize mr, president....